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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1963
Page
1
Wells Russell, 602 N. 12th, elected president of the Santa Fe Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America, at the council annual meeting. He succeeds Arthur Fleming, who led since 1961, and brings a long record of service including postwar Scoutmaster work and camp chair duties.
Russell Wells was elected president of the Santa Fe Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America, at the Elks Troop 109 Scout house. He started as a Tenderfoot in Troop 169 in the same building 29 years ago, later earning Eagle and becoming Scoutmaster. The piece ties his long Scout history to Garden City and notes local historical recollections. It also mentions a 1938 Garden City Junior College yearbook and a planned summer concert in Stevens Park. Weather and local notes follow with lighter social items and a maternity ward update at St Catherine Hospital.
Warm humid weather continues through Saturday with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Gusty southerly winds 15 to 25 mph increasing with storms. Daytime highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s, nightly lows in the middle to upper 60s. Sunrise 5 41, sunset 8 16. Local city and regional references include Garden City Goodland Dodge City and nearby cities.
Washington AP reports a 1964 GOP contest shaping as emotional appeal versus practical win chances. Goldwater aims for delegate enthusiasm without a formal fundraising network while Rockefeller relies on New York strength and grassroots mobilization to persuade convention delegates he can win.
Garden City school officials announced elementary summer sessions at Garfield School from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday ending August 2. Courses include Conversational Spanish, arts and crafts, remedial and speed reading, arithmetic, physical education, and science. Total enrollment reached 163 with 47 in remedial reading. enrollment also received from Valentine and Lincoln schools.
Funnel clouds were sighted in the Meade Dodge City and Fellsburg areas with some possibly touching ground. No damage reported as heat and unsettled air persisted across Kansas with thunderstorms expected to continue through Saturday and temperatures from the 60s to mid 70s.
Mrs Garden voices a blunt call for more yard and lawn duties noting a shift away from golf and fishing. She urges practical outdoor chores and hands on gardening efforts as the climate of home upkeep grows in importance.
Summer orchestra begins Monday at 1 p.m. in the Garden City High School Little Theater, not the junior high east building. Larry Harris announces the schedule for beginners with violins, violas, cellos, and string bass, plus advanced classes across Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday sessions.
Free Red Cross swimming instruction for adults returns this summer. Classes for beginners run mornings, intermediates at 5 15 p m, with five week sessions. Enrollment is open at the Red Cross office 417 North Seventh and cards will inform enrollees of days and hours.
Former Gov Thomas Dewey endorses Nelson Rockefeller as the logical Kennedy challenger. At a state GOP fund dinner, Dewey lauds Rockefeller while greeting the couple on their honeymoon as 2700 Republicans attend. In Kansas a California toddler dies when a car overturns after leaving U S 54 near Moran.
The Navy chief of air says Russian bomber overflights show electronic warfare limits. Aircraft carriers can be located in peacetime, but the admiral notes that if U.S. ships keep electronic quiet, they are harder to find. He compares carrier vulnerability to land bases and scolds ignorance over the issue.
Kansas Attorney General outlines regent appointment process if Jiney County voters approve 1.4 mill tax for Garden City Junior College. Commissioners appoint three two year terms and three four year terms, with elections in 1904 and 1906, and levy voting set for Tuesday June 25. Also mentions Manhattan KS State University radiation shielding program with Dr William Kimel.
Vatican announces nine days of official mourning for Pope John XXIII with daily requiem Mass. Body lies beneath St. Peter's floor, crowds file past the face on a candle framed catafalque. Mourning runs through June 7, with two festive days noted.
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